Manchester’s NAACP sets Oct. 5 Freedom Fund dinner

MANCHESTER — Five community leaders will be honored next month when the Manchester branch of the NAACP holds its fifth Freedom Fund dinner, the organization said.

The dinner will take place Oct. 5 at the Puritan Conference Center in Manchester. The theme is “Civil Rights, Then and Now” and the guest speaker will be writer/entrepreneur Kevin Powell. The Brooklyn resident has written 11 books, and his most recent is “Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and the Ghost of Dr. King.”